Bach CPE - Prussian Sonatas - Anneke Uittenbosch

 

Release Date: April 13, 1994 Label: Etcetera Number of discs: 1 Composer: CPE Bach  Performer: Anneke Uittenbosch cd info/ buy

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The second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach studied with his father and musically was the most important and influential of the sons. His career as a whole has been said, by E.F. Schmid, to mark a development "halfway between the world of his father and that of the Viennese classics." After schooling at Leipzig, he took a law degree at Frankfurt an der Oder in 1735. He moved to Berlin in 1738 and became keyboard player for the young crown prince, Frederick of Prussia, who in 1740 became King Frederick II. Bach remained in Frederick's service until 1767 as keyboard performer, composer, and accompanist to other members of the royal musical entourage, which included Frederick himself as flutist and a very distinguished circle of musicians. Two early sets of keyboard sonatas, the "Prussian" Sonatas (1740) and the "Württemberg" Sonatas (1743), show that by the age of 30 Bach had achieved a fully mature style of composition, less rigorous in its contrapuntal organization than that of his father but with considerable power of invention and formal design and with evident stress on bringing to keyboard composition some of the intense expressivity associated mainly with vocal music; for example, the first of the 1740 Sonatas has an instrumental "recitative" as the slow movement.

 

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Bach C.P.E. - Concertos for Flute, Oboe, Harp Solo - Nicolet, Holliger, Zinman, Leppard

Release Date: 01/17/1995 Label: Philips Duo Number of discs: 2 Composer: CPE Bach Performer: Nicolet, Holliger, Zinman, Leppard cd info/ buy

Review: Another very generous Duo from Philips combines the four flute concertos of C. P. E.. Bach (E flat, Wq165; A minor, Wq166; B flat, Wq167; A, Wq168) with the oboe concertos in B flat, Wq164 and E flat, Wq165. As a double bonus we are given the Sonata (Solo) in G minor for oboe and continuo (here harp and cello) and the Sonata (solo) in G for harp, Wq 139. Virtually all the concertos exist in alternative versions for cello and keyboard: the arrangement of the flute concertos was made especially for Frederick the Great. Aurele Nicolet, their soloist, uses a modern instrument pleasingly enough, but the effect with a rather heavy string accompaniment from David Zinman and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra makes less of the music than some rival versions. This Duo issue also offers Heinz Holliger's estimable account of the oboe concertos, of which the E flat was probably originally written for this instrument. Here Raymond Leppard's accompaniments with the ECO are characteristically stylish. In fact these are flawless performances, as are those of the little Sonata in G minor and the engaging Harp Solo in G (Ursula Holliger). The excellent recording given to these latter works makes this a value-for-money set----in spite of the inclusion of the less than fully recommendable flute concerto.--Gramophone

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Chamber Music of the Bach Family - Remy, Chursachsische Capelle Leipzig

Chamber Music of the Bach Family - Chursachsische Capelle Leipzig
Chamber | Eac, flac, cue | log, cover | 1 CD, 376 MB
1996 | Raumklang | RapidShare

The Chursächsische Capelle Leipzig (= CCL) was founded in the summer of 1994 by members of the Leipzig Gewandhaus and Halle Händel Festival orchestras and freelance musicians. The ensemble devotes itself exclusively to vocal and instrumental works of the 17th and 18th centuries and plays on original instruments or authentic copies. It has given concerts with such artists as Peter Schreier, Jennifer Smith and Michael Chance. The musicians have set themselves the task of systematically rediscovering and performing unpublished instrumental works of Middle German Baroque music.

Cd Content
Bach JB - Ouverture for Strings and B.C. In E minor
Bach JS - Sonata for Violin and Basso Continuo in G major, BWV 1021
Bach JC - Quartet for 2 Flutes, Viola and Cello in C major, Op. 19 no 1
Bach WF - Duet for 2 Flutes in G major, F 59
Bach CPE - Concerto for Harpsichord in A minor, Wq 1/H 403


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